“And he just left everything here?” “Well, he came and picked up some old cars and took ’em away on a flatbed truck, but the rest, he just signed it over to the Con-U collection.” Maybe Con-U should put on an exhibit of its own: Anonymous Artifacts of the Ages. “We try to auction things off,” Cheryl says, “but some of it…” She shrugs. “Like I said, everything’s a treasure to somebody. But a lot of times, you can’t find that somebody.” That’s depressing. If these little objects, so significant to the history of printing and typography and human communication, were lost in a giant storage unit …
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